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In May 2011 Garuda announced plans for a spin-off of Citilink. The new business plan was for Citilink to become a separate business entity in the first quarter of 2012 with a full brand overhaul for the airline, including a new livery design; a new website; a new cabin interior design and cabin crew uniforms; and new advertising and marketing strategies. [8]
Merpati Airlines Fokker 100 at Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport, Pekanbaru in 2008 The former Indonesian airline Merpati Nusantara Airlines offered flights to many domestic destinations and to Timor Leste , Australia, Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore.
The Merpati fleet included the following aircraft prior to its suspension (as of January 2014): [14] Merpati's Boeing 737-200/adv at Adisucipto International Airport, Yogyakarta. Merpati's MA60, PK-MZJ parked at El Tari Airport, Kupang, in January 2011 As of 2011, Merpati no longer operates the ATR 72-200 since the arrival of its newer MA60.
On 10 November 1971, a Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount, registration PK-MVS, crashed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, after telling air traffic controllers they could not make their destination due to bad weather. All 69 people aboard the aircraft were killed in the crash.
Garuda Indonesia Airways is the flag carrier of Indonesia, headquartered at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport near Jakarta.A successor of KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf, it is a member of SkyTeam airline alliance and the second-largest airline of Indonesia after Lion Air, operating scheduled flights to a number of destinations across Asia, Europe, and Australia from its hubs, focus cities, as ...
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 8968 (MZ8968/MNA8968) was a passenger flight which crashed off the coast of the Indonesian province of West Papua on 7 May 2011. The aircraft involved, a Xian MA60 , was operating Merpati Nusantara Airlines ' scheduled domestic service from Sorong to Kaimana , both in West Papua.
Merpati Flight 9760D took off at 10:15 (local time) with an estimated time of arrival at Oksibil of 11:05. It was the second flight using the same aircraft; the first flight departed at 06.50 A.M local time. The flight was planned to use Visual Flight Rules instead of Instrument Flight Rules. Fuel was sufficient for at least 2 hours and 50 minutes.
In Merpati Nusantara Airlines, the aircraft, CN235 had a bad reputation. Aircraft spareparts delay often occurred. This causing a chaotic operation management in Merpati. There was a CN235 that had a failure on its CTHS (Control Tork Holding System). This component was produced in Spain, and its cover was produced in Bandung, Indonesia.